2. Organ Transplantation Issues 8. Genetic Engineering 9 ...

[Pages:1]MEDICAL ETHICS--TOPICS LIST

Listed are possible topics related to medical ethics that you may choose from to research.

1. Organ Donation 2. Organ Transplantation Issues 3. Cloning 4. Denial of Care (based on social status, inability to pay, etc.) 5. Discrimination in Health Care 6. Privacy/Confidentiality/Disclosure Issues 7. Discrimination & AIDS 8. Genetic Engineering 9. Animal Research 10. Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide 11. Right to Die/Right to Choose Issues 12. Health Care Rationing (quality of life, profit motives, age discrimination issues) 13. Reproductive Technology (ethics of in-vitro fertilization, who owns eggs?) 14. Genetic Testing 15. Genetic Information Confidentiality and Disclosure Issues 16. Advanced Directive Issues--Terminal Care Issues 17. Surrogate Parenting (Mary Beth Whitehead surrogate mother case) 18. Use of Advanced & High Tech Medical Technology to keep terminally ill patients alive

even though they may be in a coma or a vegetative state. 19. Conduct research & support your findings on the mission of the Hemlock Society,

focusing on how society is benefited or hurt by such an organization. 20. Write a profile ofDr. Jack Kervorkian, focusing on his background as a physician and

what led up to his decision to become an active participant in assisted suicides. 21. Trace the developments surrounding the Oregon Assisted Suicide Law. How did it

come into being? What is happening at the national/federal level now?

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